From: Nancy Bo Flood <wflood_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:26:13 -0700

Another perspective to introduce, is that some children don't have a scho ol. Or cannot go to school. I suggest Yasmin's Hammer by Ann Malaspina.

Nancy Bo Flood

I often turned to It's back to school we go!: first day stories from around the world by Ellen Jackson. This is a non-fiction picture book with a worl d map on the endpapers. I would ask kids to choose a country they wanted to hear about and then would read the double page spread about that child's f irst day of school. Often kids who have family in another country would cho ose that country, allowing us to discuss the different traditions (unifor ms, no walls to a school, girls and boys with different expectations, lunch routines, etc.) with someone who knows a lot more than the rest of us. And it gave those kids a time to be appreciated.

The other advantage of this book is that you have control of how much time to spend with it. It can fit your schedule so easily. And you can engineer it to include any country the kids will be studying that year.

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Received on Thu 08 Sep 2011 02:26:13 PM CDT